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I'ace 5 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE January 31, 1975 Israel Scholar-in-Residence Optimistic About Mideast Peace by STEVE KOPPMAN Widespread fears that another Mideast war is inevitable and that Israel's national viability is in question are unjustified, Dan Pal- tir, president of Israel's Federation of Journalists, told Atlanta audiences last week. Pattir is expected to join the Israeli government next month as the prime minister’s assistant for public relations, press and inter- party relations. Currently he is a radio news commentator and political editor of the Histadrut labor federation’s morning daily "Davar." Pattir was on a ten-day visit to Atlanta under the auspices of the Jewish Welfare Federation here. In an interview, Pattir dismissed much of the current speculation about the Middle East as "irrelevant" and “out of context." "The danger of war is not im minent," Pattir said “I'm not say ing it’s rosy all around, but people have drawn the wrong conclusion, as if the outlook were bleak” Pattir said he believed Egypt is likely to negotiate a peace agree ment with Israel without requiring simultaneous agreements with the PLO or Syria. Such an agreement, Pattir said, would involve phased Israeli pullbacks on the Sinai in return for political concessions from Egypt. In order for Israel to negotiate TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Soviet naval vessels occupied with minesweeping in the Gulf of Suez have completed their work and have left the area, it was reported here. The operation was com manded from the Soviet helicopter carrier Leningrad which reported ly left before the minesweepers. According to Israeli sources, the Russian Mediterranean fleet now numbers about 50 vessels, with the PLO, Pattir said, that coalition would have to retract its support for the 'Palestinian Cove- settlements in 1947-48 were com parable to PLO activities, saying "the Israelis were not fighting to nanf calling for Israel’s destryu eliminate the Arabs as an entity or tion, abandon terrorist methods, a nation.” and recognize Israel. At that point, Concerning his prospective new he said, "it would no longer be the job as Israel’s ‘voice,’ Pattir said PLO.” But in any case, he said, the - presence of large Palestinian pop ulations on both sides of the Jor dan River, along with the absence of unified Palestinian leadership, means that “in practical terms, the Palestinian situation should be dealt with through the political leadership of Jordan." Pattir said his optimism on the chances for averting war is based on Israel’s current state of military preparedness, division among Arab states on the war question — punctuated by an Egyptian willingness to talk with Israel, and the American influence in the area. Continuing American arms shipments are imperative, Pattir said, without which Israel's posi tion would suffer and the danger of war thus increase. Pattir said he trusts in a continuing American view that its national interest lies in supporting Israel. He viewed this in terms of an American need to maintain friendly states in the area and prevent hostile regimes arising which might try to deprive U. S. allies of oil, and in terms of America’s global position, in maintaining a counterbalance to Soviet involvement in the area. The hardest issue to negotiate, Pattir said, is the fate of East Jerusalem. No Israeli government will permit Jerusalem to be divided again, he said, but arrangements might be made for Arab civil ad ministration of the old city, and for the holy places to be placed under the jurisdictions of the respective religious leaderships. In response to questions asked of him in Atlanta, Pattir denied that Irgun attacks on Arab “there are no circumstances when it is necessary to lie,” but “one should not go into a strip-tease, and strip off everything." Pattir declined to give an opinion on whether Israel’s official statements at the outbreak of the 1967 war claiming Egypt had begun the fighting were lies. Reviewing the Israeli political picture, Pattir saw some con vergence between the governing Labor party and the Likud opposi tion, both on domestic issues and Arab relations — except on the disposition of the West Bank. Pat tir said the Likud is “becoming more social democratic”, and would probably approve agreements returning most of the Sinai in return for Egyptian con cessions. Reflecting on the social democratic ideology of the Labor party, Pattir said the "visions" of a socialist Jewish state have met with the “realities of life” and that out of this, “compromise has been applied.” AJC Interviewing Nazi Survivors For New Oral History Library MILTON E. KRENTS (rl discusses the William E. Wiener Oral History Library project of the American Jewish Committee with WSB Radio's general manager Elmo Ellis (seated left I and newsman Peter Maer, one of the project’s interviewers. HAVE SAMPLES 1 WILL TRAVEL y*" T\ow v ou - C8l>\. or «\e<jant perm».n*»vT t ress linens in "the. cons-fort of \/ou.r home _et mfc help ^ou. select the riqht sixe end color for you.r ta.ble. . .. "3ust o. port of my personal service. Bernice, ftrooxlufene. 35-/-*4Vy Insurance: — Life — Health — Group — Auto — Fire — Commercial Norman Raab Phone 658-9944 - 636 8881 2520 First Nat’l Bank Tower, Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta is among the cities chosen by the American Jewish Committee for inclusion in its ex tensive William E. Wiener Oral History Library. The project will study the American experience of ap proximately 250 survivors of the Nazi Holocaust in major cities across the United States. It is sup ported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The in-depth inter views will deal mainly with the story of the survivors after their arrival in this country. For pur poses of the library, the holocaust period runs from 1933 through the end of World War II. Milton E. Krents, executive producer of the NBC “Eternal Light” series is director of the William E. Wiener Oral History Library . He was recently in Atlan ta to confer with the four Atlanta persons conducting the tape recorded interviews. The local in terviewers are Robert Evans,, television film producer and former CBS bureau chief in Moscow; Mrs. Janice Rothschild, free-lance writer and Jewish historian; Vida (joldgar, The Southern Israelite's associate editor and WSB Radio newsman Peter Maer. Approximately 20 of the inter views will be conducted in Atlanta in forthcoming weeks Krents said, "The story of what happened in America to those who survived one of the most devastating experiences in history, will form a vital contribution to future scholars and historians." Also included in the William Wiener Oral History Library are taped interviews with more than I(X) outstanding individuals whose lives relate to the American Jewish Community. Some of these are Adolph Zukor, father of the movie industry; Roberta Peters of the Metropolitan Opera; Paddy Chayevsky, author and playwright; Nobel Prize winning physicist Dr. I. I Rabi; concert violinist Isaac Stern and other well known figures. 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